Singapore legislation

Regulation 163

of Air Navigation (121 — Commercial Air Transport by Large Aeroplanes) Regulations 2018

Regulation 163

Manoeuvres requiring flight simulation training device

Amended byS 679/2018 wef 09/10/2018S 679/2018 wef 09/10/2018

Subregulation 1

An AOC holder must ensure that every person, who is on the AOC holder’s roster to be assigned duty as a flight crew member for a flight of a large aeroplane, carries out emergency and abnormal manoeuvres during flight crew training or competency checking.

Subregulation 2

Amended byS 679/2018 wef 09/10/2018

Subject to paragraph (3), an AOC holder must carry out flight crew training in the following manoeuvres in an approved flight simulation training device that is representative of the aeroplane type to be flown:

(a)

any manoeuvre that needs to be carried out in close proximity to the surface;

(b)

any manoeuvre that involves the need to simulate failure of an aircraft system;

(c)

any manoeuvre that involves actions that cannot be realistically carried out in the aeroplane; (d)any manoeuvre that, if mishandled, creates an unacceptable risk to the aeroplane, crew members or third parties.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 679/2018 wef 09/10/2018

Where no approved flight simulation training device that is representative of the aeroplane type to be flown is available, the AOC holder may carry out the flight crew training in the manouevres listed under paragraph (2) in the aeroplane to be flown if the AOC holder —

(a)

has developed procedures to simulate such manoeuvres to the limit defined by the aeroplane manufacturer beyond which the safety of the aeroplane, crew members or third parties may be compromised (called in this regulation the defined limit); and

(b)

continues the training in the manoeuvres past that defined limit through ground briefing.

Regulation 163 — Air Navigation (121 — Commercial Air Transport by Large Aeroplanes) Regulations 2018